EP1083524A3 - Coin selector - Google Patents

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EP1083524A3
EP1083524A3 EP00500184A EP00500184A EP1083524A3 EP 1083524 A3 EP1083524 A3 EP 1083524A3 EP 00500184 A EP00500184 A EP 00500184A EP 00500184 A EP00500184 A EP 00500184A EP 1083524 A3 EP1083524 A3 EP 1083524A3
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Félix Guindulain Vidondo
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Jofemar SA
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F1/00—Coin inlet arrangements; Coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms
    • G07F1/04—Coin chutes
    • G07F1/048—Coin chutes with means for damping coin motion
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D5/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of coins, e.g. for segregating coins which are unacceptable or alien to a currency
    • G07D5/04—Testing the weight
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D5/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of coins, e.g. for segregating coins which are unacceptable or alien to a currency
    • G07D5/06—Testing the hardness or elasticity
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F1/00—Coin inlet arrangements; Coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms
    • G07F1/04—Coin chutes
    • G07F1/041—Coin chutes with means, other than for testing currency, for dealing with inserted foreign matter, e.g. "stuffing", "stringing" or "salting"
    • G07F1/042—Coin chutes with means, other than for testing currency, for dealing with inserted foreign matter, e.g. "stuffing", "stringing" or "salting" the foreign matter being a long flexible member attached to a coin
    • G07F1/043—Cutting or trapping of the flexible member or the attached coin
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F1/00—Coin inlet arrangements; Coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms
    • G07F1/04—Coin chutes
    • G07F1/041—Coin chutes with means, other than for testing currency, for dealing with inserted foreign matter, e.g. "stuffing", "stringing" or "salting"
    • G07F1/042—Coin chutes with means, other than for testing currency, for dealing with inserted foreign matter, e.g. "stuffing", "stringing" or "salting" the foreign matter being a long flexible member attached to a coin
    • G07F1/044—Automatic detection of the flexible member

Abstract

Improved coin selector of the type being incorporated in any kind of machines operated by means of the insertion of coins to be validated, the selector (1) comprising an anti-thread safety mechanism constituted by a generally L-shaped lever (3) that is positioned in respect of the coin inlet opening (2), that is rotably mounted in respect of a shaft (4) by the end of one of its wings, whilst its other wing, in its resting position, crosses the coin passage channel (5) and interferes, by its free end, the beam of a pair of photodiodes (6), it being provided below the lever (3) with a feeler (7) of a general L-shape being rotable by its vertex, one of its wings (9) having a shape of a truncated cone that, in its resting position, crosses the coin passage channel (5).
EP00500184A 1999-08-18 2000-08-10 Coin selector Expired - Lifetime EP1083524B1 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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ES9901904 1999-08-18
ES009901904A ES2160066B2 (en) 1999-08-18 1999-08-18 IMPROVED COIN SELECTOR.

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EP1083524A2 EP1083524A2 (en) 2001-03-14
EP1083524A3 true EP1083524A3 (en) 2001-07-11
EP1083524B1 EP1083524B1 (en) 2008-10-15

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EP00500184A Expired - Lifetime EP1083524B1 (en) 1999-08-18 2000-08-10 Coin selector

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US (1) US6425471B1 (en)
EP (1) EP1083524B1 (en)
AT (1) ATE411580T1 (en)
AU (1) AU772606B2 (en)
CA (1) CA2316493A1 (en)
DE (1) DE60040510D1 (en)
ES (1) ES2160066B2 (en)
MX (1) MXPA00008021A (en)
PT (1) PT1083524E (en)
ZA (1) ZA200004226B (en)

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AU5344500A (en) 2001-02-22
ES2160066B2 (en) 2002-07-16
AU772606B2 (en) 2004-05-06
DE60040510D1 (en) 2008-11-27
US6425471B1 (en) 2002-07-30
ATE411580T1 (en) 2008-10-15
ES2160066A1 (en) 2001-10-16
MXPA00008021A (en) 2002-05-23
EP1083524A2 (en) 2001-03-14
PT1083524E (en) 2009-01-12
CA2316493A1 (en) 2001-02-18
EP1083524B1 (en) 2008-10-15

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